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I think I remember seeing a documentary about penguin
life, and one scene describe a penguin that decides to
waddle towards the big icy mountain. Why do they do it
is
not known. Some think those penguin are explorers, and
some think they are depressed. But either way, these
rare
penguins
will all die in the journey regardless.
What we should do, in the name of science! Is go along
with these penguin and trek alongside, making sure they
don't die in their journey towards the mountain. Parts of
the journey will be with humans guides to provide
medical
checkups and documentation purpose.
To fund the mission, a robotic UGV will follow along side
the bird at a distance providing a live stream of the trek
to a website (with GPS coordinates). If needed the UGV
can provide the rations for the bird to keep trekking.
Midway though the journey, a warm suit will be provided
if
it gets too cold. But at no time will the bird be provided
mechanized transport towards the centre, it will have to
reach it with it's own two feet.
Once the penguin reaches the mountain... somehow
without dying, the penguin will be flown back to the
colony
to live the rest of it's life. (But not before getting a
group
photo with the whole team of human guides that went
alongside with it).
As for why we should do this? Well... science?
reddit
http://www.reddit.c...depressed_and_walk/
Some penguins get "depressed" and walk away from the sea alone, to their deaths. No one knows why. [xaviergisz, Jul 03 2014]
Penguin, Depressed... Werner Herzog
https://www.youtube...watch?v=zWH_9VRWn8Y
[mofosyne, Jul 04 2014]
[link]
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It's meeting it's shoggoth |
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You can take it out of other:general, can't you? |
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Because otherwise this idea gave up before it got started. |
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I thought I placed it in science. Anyway fixed again. |
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//Parts of the journey will be with human guides to provide medical checkups and documentation purpose// |
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...as opposed to, alien guides?
...fellow penguin guides?
...polar bear guides? |
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Good intentions and all, but this wayward penguin
now lives to procreate, spreading its wayward
genes throughout the flock until vast numbers of
penguins now demonstrate a penchant to wander
off into the vast white abyss. The budget for your
plan keeps expanding to meet increasing demand
until the entire world's economic system collapses. |
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And it's all on your head. [mofosyne]. Don't mess
with nature. |
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Hey! I thought we were on the same side here. |
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Sherpas don't charge exorbitantly or anything. Sheesh, the way you talk you'd think that the penguin wanted the mountain to come to it or something. |
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I like it. I think it should be robotic only though, the
humans might spook us and then your experiment
would fail |
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Glue a webcam with GPS to the penguin. Then just wait. |
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// Sherpas would be cool // |
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That would depend on the season, their clothing, and their
exertion, shirley ? A sherpa climbing ice ridges in a thick coat on
a sunny day could get quite hot. |
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//I think I remember seeing a documentary about
penguin life...// |
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So, this entire idea rests on the fractured bedrock of
your memory? |
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I think we need to know quite a lot more about this
documentary. |
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Possibly it's trying out the old penguin axiom, "you can never cross the same glacier twice". |
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Results to be shown on the penguin version of Mythbusters. |
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The youtube clip of the penguin walking towards the
mountain is now added to the annotation on the
side. |
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i've seen this particular scene. if you are going to
anthropomorphosize this penguins behavior ,it's best
to go further. |
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this is why i dinged you. i will compare the penguin
to other species observed to participate in similar
behaviors |
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1) oridnarily sociable whales go off wandering on
their own at at various times of their lives for various
reasons. it's not always fatal. some times it's young
whales, sometime old. |
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2) chimpanzees and apes--particularly older males
that have finished mating have been observed to
live out the remainder of their lives in solitude. |
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3) solitary wandering social species (usually mammals
but birds too) of many types have been observed
anomolously on their own.... |
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so , there could be many different reasons the
particular animals is wandering off and its very hard ,
even with taking the animals context, to make a
great guess as to what's going on inside the animals
head. |
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it could be seeking novelty , curiosity, a sense of
exploration, a sense of anger at not wanting to go
with other birds, |
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its so hard to get into an animals mind, that you are
essentially just messing around with it....by
following it. nothing productive would come of it.
and if you wanted to make the penguin your pet i
suppose that would be your perogative. |
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nothing sciency about it at all. but it could be fun i
guess. expensive though. |
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Not to mention the wandering tentacle syndrome, ie the hectocotylus to which some cephalopods delegate the tasks of coming up with chat-up lines and wearing that Old Spice aftershave. |
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// it could be seeking novelty , curiosity, a
sense of exploration, a sense of anger at not
of exploration, a sense of anger at not
wanting to go with other birds // |
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… or maybe the Voices were just particulalrly
loud and insistent that day … |
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